Just like Reese Witherspoon, Hilary Duff went shopping at Barneys in true style. First, she kept the rain away with her patent and fur-trim boots, which matched her covetable Alexander Wang bag.
Rihanna's first foray into fragrance doesn't launch until next year, but a few images of Reb'l Fleur — a modification of her grammatically wobbly French rebelle fleur neck tattoo — have trickled online. The bottle, reminiscent of an upside-down high heel, feels a little Dynasty, but it's kind of fun. The scent itself is a fruity chypre with notes of tuberose, violet, hibiscus, and coconut water — a nod to Rihanna's childhood in Barbados. But based on the singer's outré style, our fingers are crossed for something out of the ordinary.
Take a sneak peek at the imagery from Rihanna's campaign after the jump.
This girl, for one. Clearly she hasn't heard (or doesn't care about) the news that tanning beds can cause cancer — and neither have the people in a new Archives of Dermatology study. Researchers surveyed 2,869 adults to examine who's fake baking and why they do it. Some findings after the jump.
Last week Carrie Ann Inaba held a holiday party in LA, but before she started to get ready at the hotel, she took a few minutes to chat with me about how to look your best during this hectic season. "It's been quite an intense year, as you saw with Dancing With the Stars," she said. "We had an incredible season. It's a nice way to wrap up the year, say thanks to all my friends and family, and maybe welcome the new year a little early." So to see Carrie's tips on getting your shimmer on, what false lashes she thinks are the best, and more, just just reading.
Wrinkles happen. They're a universal fact of life, but unfortunately we live in a society that makes that fact hard to take. Besides the fearmongering about aging that's become a general refrain in the popular discourse, there's also just a lot of misinformation out there about just what wrinkles are and how they're caused. Do you have the plain facts about how lines form and what you can actually do to manage them? Take the quiz to find out.
Most of the cool gizmo attention this year was centered around the launches of the iPad and iPhone 4. And while there weren't any earth-shattering beauty gadgets that came our way in 2010, plenty of well-known brands, like Tria, Clarisonic, Rodan + Fields, Zeno, Bliss, and Baby Quasar, added new products to their lineups. In drugstore news, Olay got in on the face scrubbing action with the launch of its Pro X Professional Advanced Cleansing System ($30) — see my review here ($30) — and L'Oréal promised smoother undereyes and reduced circles with its Collagen Micro-Pulse Eye Treatment ($20). But if you had to pick your favorite battery- or electric-powered beauty device of the year, which new launch would it be? Oh, and if there's something you loved that we left out, let us know what it is in the comment section.
Remember those fruit-scented body sprays people were crazy for in fifth grade? Well, I got my paws on Katy Perry's new scent, Purr ($45), and it smells like a fancier, less chemical-laden version of those.
It's an "upside-down" fragrance in the sense that most perfumes open with their prettiest notes and then end with a relatively generic bottom accord, usually some variation on musk or sandalwood. Purr has a really nice caramel and sweet patchouli dry down that fans of Angel will adore, but to get there, you have to sit through a bunch of fruity opening notes. Purr faded on me after about two hours, which means it's probably better as a scent sprayed on your hairbrush, since the oils on your scalp will help it last longer.